The thatched-roof Pelican bar, planted on a sandbar, serves passing boaters and tourists on Treasure Beach, a low-key fishing village on Jamaica's less developed southern coast.
I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, much less buy clothes.
我这才明白母亲是一位家庭理财高手，所以才使我们得以维持温饱，还能稍有余钱来买衣服。
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Even today, the mechanism used to raise and lower the top, along with body reinforcements, make them heavier, less capacious, less secure, and trickier to engineer than their fixed-roof counterparts.